Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville Police Department has announced the arrests of three Ocala men in connection with the Easter (April 20, 2025) shooting at TB McPherson Center that claimed the life of 20-year-old Ontaria Baisden. The suspects are currently being held at the Marion County Jail.

Kaniel Jeremy Paul Edwards, 21, has been charged with first-degree premeditated homicide, attempted first-degree homicide, and unlawfully concealing a firearm. Edwards was arrested in 2022 for battery on medical personnel and entered into a pre-trial intervention contract. After he violated the terms of that contract, he was adjudicated guilty of the offense and sentenced to 12 months of probation. After violating probation, he was sentenced on March 24, 2025, to 49 days in jail with credit for 49 days served.

Gabriel Nehemiah Frazier, 20, has been charged with second-degree homicide, attempted first-degree homicide, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. In 2019, when he was 15, he was charged as an adult with strongarm robbery; in 2022, he was sentenced to three years in state prison for strongarm robbery, attempted strongarm robbery, possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent, and unlawfully carrying a concealed firearm and was released in September 2023. In 2024, he was arrested for resisting an officer without violence and sentenced to three months of probation, which he successfully completed. A few weeks after completing probation, he was arrested on drug trafficking charges, but the charges were later dropped. On August 11, 2025, he was arrested in Marion County for two counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon and possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and was released on $10,500 bail.

Jarrett Kendall Jones, Jr., 19, has been charged with second-degree felony murder, attempted first-degree homicide, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. When he was 17, he was charged as an adult with resisting an officer without violence and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent; he was sentenced as a youthful offender to 95 days in jail with credit for 95 days served and three years of probation. In May 2025, he was re-arrested for violating probation after he was arrested in February in Georgia for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and failed to appear at an April hearing in that case. On July 8, 2025, his probation was revoked and he was sentenced to 200 days in jail with credit for 129 days served.

All of the probable cause documents for the Alachua County cases are currently sealed.